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' UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

. LOUIS SOHOENFEED, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO GEORGE BUSSE,

OF SAME PLACE.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 271,278, dated January 30', 1883.

' Application filed September], 1882. (No model.) i

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, LOUIS SCHOENFELD, of St. Louis, Missouri, have made a new and useful Improvement in Toys, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being bad to the annexed drawings, making part of this specification, in which- Figure 1 is a side view ofthe toy; Fig. 2, an edge view of its wheel, and Fig. 3 a sectional view of the Wheel.

The same letters denote the same parts.

The present toy, generally considered, consists of a grooved wheeland-a string, the string being attached to the wheel at the bottom of the groove, enabling the string to be wound upon the wheel in the groove. The wheel is suspended by means of the string, and the wheel is weighted at one side of the line of suspension, and by suitably moving the string in an upward and downward direction the wheel is caused to wind and unwind upon the string.

Arepresents the wheel, and B the string. The wheel is grooved at a, the groove extending well into the wheel, but leaving the central portion, a, for the string B to be attached to and to wind upon. The groove should be shaped as shown in Figs.2, 3--that is, V-shaped in cross-section--with the sides a o of the [groove slightly convex, as shown; and to facilitate the operation the wheel should be weighted at one side otithe line of suspension. as shown at c, Fig. 1. This causes the wheel to turn, as seen in Fig. 1, so as to bring the string atits point of connection with the wheel to the side of the center of the wheel. Then, by moving the string upward and downward the wheel commences to wind and unwind upon the string, winding, if desired, entirely up to the ring I), and by continuing to move the string in the manner described the movement ofthe wheel can be'maintained. The shape of the groove a. is favorable for the winding and unwinding of the wheel.

I claim-- r 1. The herein-described toy, consisting of the wheel A, having the groove a, of the shape described, and having the weight a and the string B, combined anti operating substantially as described.

2. The combination of the grooved and weighted wheel A and the string B, as and for the purpose described.

LOUIS SGHOENFELD.

Witnesses:

U. D. MooDY, CHARLES PICKLES. 

